skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Plausible on https://console.dev for 2 weeks now and will be paying once the trial ends. The UI is very straightforward and it makes it easy to see the key stats: visitors, popular pages, referrers, and goal tracking. We really don't need anything else and Plausible's reasonable, privacy-first approach to how they implement tracking[1] fits our philosophy. Google Analytics supports Google's mass tracking and I like the fact I have the option to run Plausible myself if I want.

Since our site is deployed on Cloudflare Workers, I had tried Cloudflare's Privacy Analytics but the dashboard data retention of just 1 week is insufficient. And unless you use their beacon, the network stats seem completely inaccurate.

[1] https://plausible.io/data-policy
Spillover from medical terms is very common.
You sometimes hear someone being called a "psycho" or a "sociopath" but you don't make the assumption that the accuser is a trained psychiatrist.

"Idiot" used to be a medical condition, someone suffering from idiocy.

"Retard"; someone whose mental development had been retarded and remained in a childhood state into adulthood.

These words are not supposed to be taken literally (when used colloquially) but to suggest that the person in question displays signs of the medical condition.

I guess we could try to label this as misuse of the terms and try to end the practice, but where would that lead us?
"Bob is double plus ungood at thinking"?
WhatsApp adds biometric authentication for logging in on desktop
Huh? I didn't call you "not the brightest bulb”, that was projection on your part and I am sorry for miscommunicating. What I meant was that these are the thought processes that spring to my mind when I hear someone using these phrases. I also explained a little bit of the underlying thinking on my side. This was my attempt of showing you my side of how I think about this.

Also: just because these thoughts spring to my mind doesn't mean I deterministically from now on think that person is stupid etc. I had my best friends use these words in an unreflected way.
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They could've just as well "repeated" the "warning" one last time and shut them down next week. They choose to act now. At the very least, this was a PR mistake.
> just can not move into the future.

It can. How would you like them to move into the future? It's not as if there's been no recent evolution in terminal emulators.

Notice that evolving into the future and using old ideas are not incompatible. Modern cryptography still uses Euclid's algorithm from more than two millennia ago.
Not true, there were phones with much better cameras - as other user pointed out Sony Ericsson made phones with decent cameras (e.g. K850i) and they were actually heavily marketed (and bought) based on its camera quality.

See e.g. https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_k850-review-165p5.php...
Saying "Bad User Experience" without explaining is just saying, "Bad" or "Bad product". It doesn't help, and I would say discredits you. Not sure what you mean.

Some improvements they can make:
- Support OAuth2 and immediate Google Cal integration
- Use modern UI (they have dated (~2017/2018 style) but very functional UI)

But I don't care about either of these features.
That is exactly what censorship is, you don't like how they're acting or what they're saying so you censor them by kicking them out.
> Capability based security, for example was something that allowed you to run any program, with no danger to your system. It's not part of any common OS.

Basically, haven't we "reinvented" this via "The Eternal Mainframe"? Only now it's called Amazon Web Services?
You can’t:

① If it’s on the same domain, it would necessitate weakening the HSTS policy, removing includeSubDomains and preload.

② If it’s on a separate domain, you’re actively training people to do dangerous things and get phished.

③ Pretty much the only way this will ever be used is if you push people to it and ensure that search engines choose it rather than the secure version. (Implicit in this is a significant SEO hassle.) Thus you’re back exactly where you started.
Why Grandma can’t get a vaccine appointment: a recurring queueing problem
Open-source, not open-contribution
My perspective is that I don't really care.

If my smart TV gets hacked, what are they going to do?
Take my Netflix and YouTube credentials?

I've got an LG TV, there aren't huge adverts.
It's faster than switching on my PS5 to watch something.

It even has DLNA so I can listen to my music collection off my NAS.

If it starts hacking my network, what's it going to do?
Public key SSH is pretty strong.
And anything sensitive that could be snooped on would be HTTPS.

So this smart TV hack is going to require a second exploit to get into my windows PC? or Linux boxes?
Yes, it is in his quote.

It is nowhere to be seen in today's world, though. You're here talking about letting the nazis spread their hatred as much as they want, but I am not seeing you having any plan for how to dealing with them, other than just letting them do whatever they want.

Once you let them out, what are you planning to do to deal with them?
Your tone is very off-putting. It comes off as out of touch, patronising, and smarmy.
You vastly underestimate the size of this demographic, which is exactly what the short-sellers of GameStop did.
Here's the best explanation I've found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUbJcGoYQ4

From what I understand, investors shorted 150% of stocks, so when people start buying the shares and the share prices, the investors are forced to sell their shorts, thus increasing the price and the whole things snowballs
Taskade's video chat runs on Jitsi, on the same page with our collaborative task list. We're happy with the performance and integration so far.

You can test out our implementation no signup needed: https://www.taskade.com/new
This! I would love a "purified" version of kitty which is just an xterm with font ligatures. And no silly features like underlining of links, etc. Also, an option to display bold text by using brighter colors (as God intended).
Bit angry, are we.
Tack-on question: Even if a mutation can (re)infect people who have been vaccinated or previously had COVID, can we assume their immune response would at least be improved?
Section 230 only protects against civil suits, not criminal activity.
Of course you're censoring them.

You would also be censoring people if you ran an upscale restaurant with a dress code and standards of behavior, or if you didn't let them post ads on the walls.

As long as you make your rules clear and enforce them fairly, censorship and standards of behavior are completely fine.

The very large social media platforms all market themselves as being neutral. They got to be the largest by providing a space for everyone.

So the ask here is "please enforce the rules fairly the way you have always promised you would." Asking a business to deliver on the promises they've made and continue to make is not an entitled attitude.

After all, all these businesses are in complete control of what they promise. If they don't like the old promise, they have a first amendment right to make a new promise that suits them better.
My biggest bugbear with these multi-modals is that much of the time the buttons that turn consent on or off are not labelled. You're supposed to guess from their colour and default position what is on and what is off, so when I make a choice I never know for sure how the website interpreted my choice.

Some have an "accept all" button that could perhaps reveal which is "on" and which is "off", since when you press it all the buttons go to "on". But this happens so quickly and the modal is closed immediately afterwards, that there's no time to tell. And of course by then you've already accepted so it doesn't matter.
Closures and internal state of objects are basically the same thing.
> The internet needs a true public square

Honest question: why?
Having just one child increases your climate footprint beyond your control

Unless they invent a cheap fusion reactor. People don’t just produce pollution; they produce ideas as well.
Will they be able to talk about tardigrades during biology class?
The main reason certain political voices are targeted over others is that the technological innovation is centralized into certain cities. City folks usually have certain political leaning which is not representative of people living elsewhere.

For this reason, I hope the corona thing will make decentralized development more popular. If people working for the web platforms are all based in different villages and work remotely, they don't have to confirm to retarded city politics and can run their thing completely differently.

If there is a platform that allows for republican opinions, another one that allows for libertarian opinions, another one that allows for libertarian ones, it will be completely fine.
That would be fine if the attitude were 'best tool for the job'...

Often there is the people element to tech though - that isn't the attitude, normally optics is your tech wiz kid is doing something cool with (metaphor) peanut butter sandwiches, lets build our next office complex with peanut butter sandwiches. Architecture? What's that. Move fast, break things, eat lots of sandwiches.
I don't think the point of mentioning Veblen goods was defining a namespace. The point is that this is such well-covered ground in economic theory that there's actually a name for it. The Wikipedia link is presumably a pointer to where you can start reading more answers about these questions (e.g. conspicuous consumption for social status).
Alan Kay responds
> my tax money is used to bail them out when they lose.

I squirted coffee through my nostrils with laughter when I read this. True dat.
Cant you easily tell where the invested money is coming from? if its coming from corporate accounts then it would obviously be another hedge fund but as far as I was aware these were lots of accounts from armchair investment platforms like robinhood etc
I struggled to read Spaceship Earth this past summer. Are his lectures better?
I wonder how much this is born from what at outwardly appear very transient.

Our interfaces with computing have changed so radically and many things are legitmately obselete for the majority of us; no one is likely to reach for a punch card or a 3.5" floppy (might be a few edge cases on this one :) ).

Most of this is the facade of computing though and many of underlying fundamentals are the same but I feel that this outward appears of transiency leaves us flippant about the retrospective.

It's not a great comparison but lets look at military history, many of the tactics, and hardware remain the same for decades with design and development taking an significant portion of time. the F35 has been in development for nearly 2 decades and it's only now at the beginning of it's service life.
>..illuminating the confluence of the Indus and Zanskar rivers.

I was wondering how that looks like so I DDG-ed and found the below photo titled "Sunset on Indus river":

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/40/7a/21/407a21fbb8d124dff713...
Discord has shut down the /r/WallStreetBets server
Well, they can also just wait for Google to either rename or kill off their product. /s

On a more serious note, it was never confusing to me - I didn't even notice they share the same word until now tbh. And quick search for "meet videoconferencing" shows quite a few of the products named similarly. To me it is almost as generic as "chat".
Hey there! Jitsi dev here. What do you have in mind? Feel free to contact us at: jaastech@8x8.com
Going to have to defuse this FUD with a complete an absolute, No. The shorts in GME are still there and the squeeze is yet to happen.

Title Translation: The hedge funds and shorts are now selling after market, so should you?

These Hedge fund managers and short-sellers decided to sell after market close that panicked some paper hands to react and start selling during wallstreetbets getting bans on Discord and becoming private.

The title and the whole article is manufactured to shake the paper hands.
seems cool but it is macOS-only
So one officer dead and four "terrorist" dead. Damn. If Al-Quaeda had this level of efficacy they wouldn't last a year.

Not that Al-Quaida was deserving of the liberties that were sacrifced for it...
In Norway one and halve year ago I did 1000km round trip in eGolf. The trip was over mountains and I needed to charge quite a few times.

It was not possible to pay with a credit card directly without installing an app. All charging stations offered sms payments but the rate was 20-25% higher than paying with an app. So by the end of the trip I ended up with 4 different apps. Even after installing the app and entering credit card details the experience was bad. One has to enter the charger code which at one place was 4 digits even when there were only 2 chargers. Then sometimes charging required 2-3 attempts to press the start button in the phone. At one time I could not start charging in the phone and called the support. They rebooted the charger, but it still did not help. Eventually they claimed incompatibility with my phone and started charging themselves.

6 months ago I did 750km trip in a rented Tesla. Charging just worked with no need for phone or entering anything and I just received the final bill from the renting company with all the details.
Does anybody know a video conferencing tool with low CPU usage while screen sharing? All the tools I've tried, including Jitsi, slow down my computer to a crawl.
> Literally what the r-word controversy is about. Glad you finally get it.

Huh, are you confusing me with someone here? I argued precisely that in this very thread. As someone who grew up knowing people whose relatives were disabled I think of the r-word (and the German equivalent, English is not my first language) as horrible.

Most people who use it are ignorant to what it means to people who have to live with it every day. Which means it is even worse if one thinks about it and goes like "yeah I understand why they hate it, but I am still gonna use it", because then they are not ignorant but malicious.
I disagree

I hate reading pseudocode because I do always have to wonder "what the person writting this had actually on their mind"

an actual source code is literally what's going on.
Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iea-energy-renewables-idU...
Email is not comparable to Discord... Teamspeak and Mumble are dying because everyone moved to Discord -- and all the professional meeting solutions are awful.

What should I use if it's so easy?
Engineer can mean anything from aerospace engineer to someone who fixes boilers in UK. I.e.someone might say they're a boiler 'engineer' but they didn't build or design the thing. It doesn't have a single meaning here. Others might say technician.
Is it only available for MacOS? When I go to the download page, it only shows me download for MacOS.
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China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test
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The senate is elected on a slower cycle, and simply by nature of its differing powers you might get different dynamics. You see that happen in some other democracies, at least.

Also: just because the senate should be proportionally scaled doesn't mean that proportionality needs to follow the same rules as the house's: e.g. one of them might use winner-takes-all per district approach, another a ranked choice, or one might use districts, and another be a proportional representation of the whole state.

Finally, while a slight variation in the representation is likely "nice to have" I don't actually think it's all that critical. The idea makes sense: you want a check on power, but in practice it fails at that goal today, because power is not wielded by senate vs. house, but instead by republicans vs. democrats (sure, in the exceptional curent case of a precisely divided senate where every vote counts there's a slight possibility that intra-party disagreements mean that some senators sometimes switch sides, but even now it's going to be rare). But it's really important to realize that the senate does not exercise any kind of legislative check on the house in the normal case that congress is either clearly divided or clearly in the same hands. When house and senate are in the same hands, it's the political party that makes the decisions and members generally stay in line; and conversely when it's divided it's the political parties that do the horse-trading. There's no protection or moderation offered by the current system; if anything it makes for even more extreme legislation - because now it's either deadlock or go!-go!-go! - and when congress is in gung-ho mode, they don't have the luxury of careful consideration, and so likely produce less moderate legislation.

The current split is a failure; not a feature.
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Well, it does also mean that, but, in this context, that's not what came to mind when I saw it.
The Battle for Moral Authority
> Are we going to play this game though?

Ok. Let's. Are BLM and the riots they caused terrorist acts? By your definition - yes.

I would argue no. I think there needs to be more extreme threshold for something to be labeled as a terrorist group.
No, you're right.

I was thinking in terms of B2C economics... $99 for 300 MAU would be crazy for a consumer startup product. $99 for 300 internal business users is completely different.
The hard part is talking to hiring managers or potential clients about this without sounding like an idiot who doesn’t know how to put his or her shoes on the right feet. What do other people do in those situations to communicate this?
Essentially, yes. People refuse to understand that it is impossible for there to be a "health care market" in the usual sense because (1) like cable, running a hospital or clinic is expensive enough that many people have only one option, whether or not it is regulated, and (2) unlike cable, many people cannot choose whether or not to participate.
Not "one true scotsman", it's more that the whole thing is more nuanced and last century was under the shadow of Soviet Union, which worked exactly like that for most of its existence. But if you drilled down the official materials deep enough, there was acknowledgement that the system was state capitalism, it was just generally wrapped in vague terms of "building socialism, towards communism", etc. etc. Outside of USSR, most other attempts were quickly "removed" from existence.

Technically even in socialist countries in USSR sphere you had somewhat market-acting private companies, though the most "ideologically correct" form of them were co-operatives.

China is interesting case, with mix of centrally planned and market economy. But I can't provide enough details (though I've seen glorious poster calling on people to start SMBs to build communism :D) to argue either way.

Ultimately - Even USSR called the system state capitalism, with a fig leaf that supposedly the people controlled it.
The title is a bit misleading, because you could infer that she will be deported based only on the thread she wrote.

But, reading the article, she had a "visitor visa" and she's suspected of making profit by "selling her e-book and putting up consultation fees on traveling".
I am sick of Dropbox advertising to me and am going to cancel my subscription. I wish there was a “leave me alone” option for paid accounts, I was perfectly happy in the days before Dropbox decided it was necessary to remind me of its existence every few days.
Hey all, saghul from team Jitsi here. Didn't expect this to spread so fast, thanks everyone!

Happy to answer any questions you may have!
One of the great things about Jitsi are the config options:

https://meet.jit.si/JitsiMeetAPIExampletest#config.p2p.enabl...

Should give you stereo, high-quality audio suitable for music, with echo cancellation disabled.

One of the things that makes Jitsi not perfect however is that I understand that Jitsi Videobridge is an SFU, thus not appropriate for a large conference. Perhaps now they have a way to monetise, they can add this and charge for bandwidth/CPU usage.
They beat a police officer to death in the process of taking over the Capitol building, to attempt to stop democratic processes because they didn’t like the outcome.

Violence (murder!) for political motives. Terrorism.
Just feels like you’re arguing that only short term memory matters. Have you never encountered a problem that became easy once you talked to someone with more background on the problem than you?

Why would you want to handicap yourself or your field by making it harder to “talk” to those a little bit further before you?

Your building is resting on their foundations whether you acknowledge it or not. They may have had a solution for the problem you’re facing.
Those not-listening spambots in the other thread were actual people?
Does my edit at least clarify, that my intent was not so?

I prefer that, over comment removal...
WhatsApp will soon require your face or fingerprint to link a new device
There was a wetland in my back yard as a kid in Minnesota, where a swamp milkweed[0] grew. Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed, and their larvae feed on milkweed, so I've seen plenty of Monarch butterflies and caterpillars.

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, I remember the local nature center giving a demonstration on their work to tag and study Monarchs using small stickers on their wings.

It hard for me to fathom that Monarch butterflies are likely to be declared at-risk soon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_incarnata
Yes I have, it’s actually pleasant to drive and steer, it handles like a luxury sedan and it feels like one unlike a Tesla which feels cheaper than what Prius did 15 years ago.
They lie?
Apple CEO Tim Cook teases 'new things coming in 2021 – here's what they could be
Your coffee shop is not relevant on the global scale. But with big platforms like Facebook, it's not easy to opt out from them. Facebook and other platforms aren't just social media for teenagers. Many companies nowadays only have a Facebook/Whatsapp profile as their only contact point. If you get banned from these services you miss out on accessing a wide share of services, not related to social media.

Also, if you have people coming to your coffee shop and acting badly, people can judge it for themselves and form their own opinion. On the internet, bans are quiet and you can easily silence a large chunk of the userbase without making a noise.

You may cheer these big platforms now because it's only "racists, white supremacists and crooks" being banned, but as soon as the first group of people you agree with gets blocked from these platforms you'll be the first one to fight for freedom of speech.
just wait for smart TVs which are Zoom friendly and come with a camera and microphone built-in.
It is probably offtopic here and therefore you are downvoted by other people, but personally I thank you for getting the word out there. Hope to join a meeting soon!
What exactly would you put time into? And in what way do you see Rust having any meaningful influence on how one can figure a system out?
I use Rust everyday in the past 15 months. The programming language is just a very small part of the whole picture. Usually you integrate with many 3rd party systems that don't always provide all the guarantees they claim (so you get many edge cases) and understanding these things is not trivial. If it was only for understanding the code it would be easy. And actually having worked with both Rust and Ruby, the easiness of binding.pry and debugging is unbeatable. Rust gives you guarantees how the code behave, but when you have input from external sources (user input or external service input), it's much easier to understand what's happening (=debug) in a dynamic language.
WhatsApp now requires biometric authentication for PC and web access
:) That is intriguing. What do you mean?